Pastor Cecil A. Thompson DailyEvotional

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson October 1, 2015   TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “WORTHY CONDUCT!” Philippians  1:27 “ Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel . ” Back when I was in grade school (that is way back) I had a teacher who consistently used a word that I have not heard for years -- DECORUM.  A quick peek at a dictionary and I find the definition: “ correct or proper behavior that shows respect and good manners.” Respect! What a fantastic word. It has the connotation of showing kindness and honor to another individual. That person does not necessarily have a higher position, but rather it sh

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 30, 2015   TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “PRAYERFUL GOSSIP!” I Timothy  5:13 “ And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. ” Many years ago I received a call from a woman who asked for an appointment. I had never met this woman and wondered what she wanted. I will never forget her first words: “I am the other woman.” I was confused since I had never met her before and, in fact, had never heard her name mentioned. She asked if our Prayer Chain had not been praying about the wicked woman who was having an affair with one of the men in our church. I assured her that her name was not being mentioned in our prayer concerns. She said tha

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 29, 2015   TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “REAL PURPOSE!” Philippians 1:21-24 “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from mylabor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.”    Last week I received an email message with a thought-provoking illustration. Supposedly a teacher stood before a classroom with her arm extended holding a glass of water. She asked the students to guess how much it weighed. The guesses ranged from 12 ounces to 24 ounces. The teacher smiled and said the "weight" depends on how long you hold it

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 28, 2015   TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “BE TEACHABLE!” Matthew  13:15 “For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand withtheir hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.” When I was a junior in high school several of us journeyed a few hundred miles from home to work in the harvest. That summer the weather delayed the harvest, however we were able to secure temporary employment at an insecticide processing company. There was a large platform approximately 10 feet off the floor where various bags of a powder-like product were dumped into a large hopper. To keep the powder from blowing al

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 25, 2015   TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “THE SANDS OF ETERNITY!” Ecclesiastes  3:11 “He hath made everything beautiful in His time: also He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”   Years ago I heard a minister tell of an incident in a hospital elevator where he had just come from visiting a very ill patient. A young man overheard him speak about eternity and, perhaps wanting to mock his view, asked the minister where eternity was. The minister told the boy to place his hand on his chest to feel the beat of his heart.  Young man, eternity is one heartbeat away!  That may answer where eternity is or at least how close we are to it, but just how long is eternity? Our

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 24, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “AT-ONE-MENT!” John  17:11 “ Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me that they may be one as We are. ” Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. This morning as I was glancing over the copy of Blessings From The Heart , the word "atonement" seemed to jump out at me and the three words AT-ONE-MENT seemed to flow. We know that Jesus is our atoning sacrifice and He desires for us to be "at one" with Him. For years I have heard and frequently use the expression of "someone being so heavenly minded that they are of no earthly use." I am sure that if you think about

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 23, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “ATONEMENT!” Romans 5:6-8 “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” This year, September 23, 2015, is designated as Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is the most sacred day for Jews. A day for confessing the sins of the people as well as their individual sins. The solemn day is marked by deep contrition and fasting. Unfortunately, most Christians pay very little attention to the seven Feasts that were established by God and given to Moses. This is one of those

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 22, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “MY PRAYER FOR YOU!” Philippians 1:9-11 “And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” All too often our prayers for others are limited to their physical or financial needs. While that is well and good, it seems that it is very shortsighted. If we were to study the prayers in the word of God, we would find that seldom are those prayers directed toward healing or financial gain. Paul is praying for the saints who live in Philippi. It i

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 21, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!” Philippians 1:3-6a “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy,  for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,   being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it.” For some of us old folks the name Bob Hope elicits warm memories. One of his signature songs was the title of today’s  Blessings From the Heart . Memories are very precious things. Memories will always remain with us. Our precious loved ones may have slipped off into eternity, but the memories that they have left are always there. I have often mentioned to families that I

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 18, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com   “O GOD, OUR HELP IN AGES PAST!” Psalm 90:1-2 “Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”   O God, Our Help in Ages Past,  is a hymn by  Isaac Watts  and  paraphrases   Psalm  90. It originally consisted of nine stanzas. In present usage, however, the hymn is usually limited to stanzas one, two, three, five and nine. The hymn was originally part of  The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament , published by Watts in  1719 . It has often been sung for special occasions in  England . It was sung in  1941,  at a religious service on board  HMS Pr

September 17, 2015 DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 17, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “RESTORE ME!” Psalm 51:10-11 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.  Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. ” It sometimes feels as if we are continually appealing to the Lord to forgive some sin we have committed in thought, word or deed. We are sinners by birth and without a Savior,  we are eternally lost. Even after receiving Jesus Christ as our personal Savior we find that there are thoughts or actions that need forgiveness. I heard the story of a saintly man of God who seemed to constantly live close to the Lord. Someone asked him the secret of consistently having a victorious Christian life. His response

DAILY-E-VOTIONAL BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART Pastor Cecil A. Thompson September 16, 2015 TO  LISTEN  TO THE DAILY E-VOTIONAL, CLICK ON THE LINK (OR COPY AND PASTE INTO YOUR BROWSER) FOR MY DAILY BLOG! https:// pastorcecilathompsondailye- votional.blogspot.com “LOVE!” I Corinthians  13:13   “ Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.   And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ” For the previous two days I have shared thoughts about the qualities of FAITH and HOPE. That brings us to the last of these -- LOVE. I was blessed to have discovered my precious life partner when I was just a boy of 14. Joyce and I knew the joy of walking together, finally holding hands, the first kiss, and the consummation of our love on our wedding night. (I wish couples would depart from the liberal idea that sex before marriage is the norm.) Our love continued to grow across the years as we experienced the birth of our